Greig Leach

It took a while today, in fact it took 88 kilometers before the breakaway was truly established. The six-man group was first formed by Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) but by now included his teammate Ben Healy. Joining the guys in pink are Oier Lazkano (Movistar), Oscar Onley (DSM-Firmenich-PostNL) the French Champion Paul Lapiera (Decathlon-Ag2r-La Mondiale) and Matteo Vercher (TotalEnergies). Both Lazkano and Vercher have been off the front in earlier stages, but did not stay away to the end. With the peloton not giving these guys more than a minute or two, it wasn't looking like this one would stick to the end either. It was hard to decipher what the GC teams were up to. I suspect they had their own plans for the day and were busy trying to tire each other out.